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How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change
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How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change Hardcover - 2003

by Polsby, Nelson W

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Oxford University Press. Pages Are Tight And Clean Except For Approximately 125 Pages That Have Some Highlighting, Underlining And Margin Notes. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2003.
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  • Title How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change
  • Author Polsby, Nelson W
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 257
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford, Etc.
  • Date 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Fh5235
  • ISBN 9780195161953 / 0195161955
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.98 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 17.73 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1550
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003002296
  • Dewey Decimal Code 328.730

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-250) and index.

First line

Roughly six decades ago, in 1940, Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2004, Page 2126

About the author

Nelson Polsby is Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught American politics and government since 1967. A close Congress watcher for more than 40 years, he is the author of, among others, Congress and the Presidency, and Presidential Elections (with Aaron Wildavsky, 10th edition.) He is editor of the Annual Review of Political Science and writes often for the Op-ed pages of the LA Times, Boston Globe, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.